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dimensionable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Italic *mētis Latin mētior Latin dīmētior Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dīmēnsiōder. English dimension Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English dimensionable From dimension + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being measured or dimensioned.
   • The Staggered option forces staggered dimensions, which are like stacked continuous dimensions. This option, however, requires an even number of dimensionable objects. 2005, Ralph Grabowski, Using AutoCAD 2005, Autodesk Press, →ISBN, page 583:
   • And even as we, who are now in Space, look down on Flatland and see the insides of all things, so of a certainty there is yet above us some higher, purer region, […] some yet more spacious Space, some more dimensionable Dimensionality […] 1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part II: Other Worlds, § 19.— How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it, pages 85–86:
   • In retrospect, the first major hurdle was that of establishing effective mental communication between the doctor and the engineer. This entailed, among other things, the doctor's giving capsule courses of instruction on reproductive anatomy and the definition of the uterus in dimensionable terms. 1966, Paul H. Bronnenkant, “Problems of IUD Manufacture”, in Family Planning and Population Programs: A Review of World Developments, Chicago, I.L.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 495:

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